About the Authors

Kazuyuki Sogawa

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, School of Life and Environmental Science, Azabu University, Kanagawa, Japan

Shigetsugu Takano

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

stakano@faculty.chiba-u.jp

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

Takayuki Ishige

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Laboratory Medicine, Chiba University Hospital, Chiba, Japan

Hideyuki Yoshitomi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

Shingo Kagawa

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

Katsunori Furukawa

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

Tsukasa Takayashiki

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

Satoshi Kuboki

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

Fumio Nomura

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Divisions of Clinical Mass Spectrometry and Clinical Genetics, Chiba University Hospital, Chiba, Japan

Masayuki Ohtsuka

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.